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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=454Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:40:41Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
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= The Early Days =<br />
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Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
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Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
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Michael has been involved in Domain Names since the early 90s and his oldest global domain (hicom.org) was registered in May of 1992. An accidental court battle with Harrods department store <ref name=Harrods>[http://cylaw.info/domain-names/ Domain Names: Cyberlaw Information - Section on Harrods]</ref> caused the British Press to christen him "The Information Superhighwayman" causing him to acquire the somewhat odd reputation of being the world's first domain name speculator but also to find a good name for his personal Weblog <ref name="SuperHighwayman">[http://superhighwayman.com/ The Information Superhighwayman - Michael Lawrie's personal weblog.]</ref>. Despite a later run-in with the British Airports Authority over a website devoted to sheep <ref name=BAA>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/23/baa_attempts_to_shaft_sheep/ BAA attempts to shaft sheep site.]</ref> he has actually prosecuted more domain name and trademark cases than he has defended.<br />
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= Security =<br />
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Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
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= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
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Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
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Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
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= More Information =<br />
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Here are some external links:<br />
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
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* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
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* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=453Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:35:30Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
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= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
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Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
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Michael has been involved in Domain Names since the early 90s and his oldest global domain (hicom.org) was registered in May of 1992. An accidental court battle with Harrods department store <ref name=Harrods>[http://cylaw.info/domain-names/ Domain Names: Cyberlaw Information - Section on Harrods]</ref> caused the British Press to christen him "The Information Superhighwayman" causing him to acquire the somewhat odd reputation of being the world's first domain name speculator and to find a good name for his personal Weblog <ref name="SuperHighwayman">[http://superhighwayman.com/ The Information Superhighwayman - Michael Lawrie's personal weblog.]</ref>. Despite a later run-in with the British Airports Authority over a website devoted to sheep <ref name=BAA>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/23/baa_attempts_to_shaft_sheep/ BAA attempts to shaft sheep site.]</ref> he has actually prosecuted more domain name and trademark cases than he has defended.<br />
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= Security =<br />
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Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
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Here are some external links:<br />
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
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* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
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* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=452Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:34:40Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
Michael has been involved in Domain Names since the early 90s and his oldest global domain (hicom.org) was registered in May of 1992. An accidental court battle with Harrods department store <ref name=Harrods>[http://cylaw.info/domain-names/ Domain Names: Cyberlaw Information - Section on Harrods]</ref> caused the British Press to christen him "The Information Superhighwayman" causing him to acquire the somewhat odd reputation of being the world's first domain name speculator and to find a good name for his personal Weblog <ref="SuperHighwayman">[http://superhighwayman.com/ The Information Superhighwayman - Michael Lawrie's personal weblog.]]</ref>. Despite a later run-in with the British Airports Authority over a website devoted to sheep <ref name=BAA>[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/03/23/baa_attempts_to_shaft_sheep/ BAA attempts to shaft sheep site.]</ref> he has actually prosecuted more domain name and trademark cases than he has defended.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
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* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
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And the inline references:<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Hosting&diff=451Hosting2016-03-30T04:17:51Z<p>Michael: /* Blog Hosting */</p>
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We can host your website ourselves on our main servers and if your site is relatively small we are more than happy to do so. If your website is larger or you need more control over it we also have partnerships with a number of other hosting providers offering more varied and technical solutions ranging in scale. This flexibility means we don't need to oversell you something that you won't need. We are also more than happy to manage any transitions and, if required look after the ongoing systems management and maintenance.<br />
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== Blog Hosting ==<br />
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http://phatic.org is our dedicated blog hosting platform which is ideal for both simple personal or small business weblogs and much more complex SEO oriented blogs. We have been using a multi user Wordpress system for over ten years and this setup allows you a great deal of flexibility in the look and feel of your blog site. Wordpress also has extensive photo gallery and e-commerce capabilities. It is becoming quite popular these days to use a weblog setup as the whole basis of a web page; take a look at http://trolltamers.com/ or http://greenirisphotography.co.uk which are both done this way and hosted on our Wordpress servers.<br />
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== DNS Hosting ==<br />
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DNS (the Domain Name System) is the mechanism that allows hosts connected to the Internet to turn a domain name like Eastnet.ca into a numeric address so that it can be connected to - Think of it as a telephone directory that can be updated quite quickly and easily. If you have your own domain name that you want to use for email or a website then DNS hosting is quite important. We have a number of large DNS servers and agreements with other Internet Service Providers for backups. <br />
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As you may have noticed the Eastnet site works on a secured Wiki which is rather like Wikipedia except you have to be logged in to make any changes. It may seem a rather unusual way to build a website but once you get used to it, it's great if your website is mostly just offering information. We have setup our servers to allow multiple occurrences of a Wiki in many different ways and if you'd like to do your website this way then feel free to talk to us about it.<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=450Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:13:19Z<p>Michael: /* More Information */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
<br />
* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
<br />
<br />
And the inline references:<br />
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<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=449Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:12:27Z<p>Michael: /* More Information */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
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* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
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* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
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* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
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References:<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=448Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:11:20Z<p>Michael: /* More Information */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
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* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=447Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T04:10:51Z<p>Michael: /* More Information */</p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop.]<br />
<br />
* [http://shonky.com Shonky Internet.]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
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References:<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=446Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:59:35Z<p>Michael: /* Recruitment.com and beyond */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff. The company was worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
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References:<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=445Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:58:45Z<p>Michael: /* Recruitment.com and beyond */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building up the company to have both a large Internet and high-street presence and hundreds of staff; and worth in excess of fifty million dollars before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
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References:<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=444Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:55:52Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and [http://trolltamers.com/ Trolltamers] - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
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[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=443Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-30T03:54:48Z<p>Michael: /* A new way of doing the Internet... */</p>
<hr />
<div>= A new way of doing the Internet... =<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering [[Michael_Lawrie|technical manager]]. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
= Companies we have worked with: =<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=442Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-30T03:53:18Z<p>Michael: /* A new way of doing the Internet... */</p>
<hr />
<div>= A new way of doing the Internet... =<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering [[michael_lawrie|technical manager]]. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
= Companies we have worked with: =<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=441Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-30T03:52:43Z<p>Michael: /* A new way of doing the Internet... */</p>
<hr />
<div>= A new way of doing the Internet... =<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering [[michael_lawrie technical manager]]. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
= Companies we have worked with: =<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, online, about, aboot, about eastnet.ca, about eastnet, aboot eastnet, aboot eastnet.ca, do canadians say aboot, not very often no, but what the hell"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=440Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-30T03:52:16Z<p>Michael: /* A new way of doing the Internet... */</p>
<hr />
<div>= A new way of doing the Internet... =<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering [michael_lawrie technical manager]. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
= Companies we have worked with: =<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, online, about, aboot, about eastnet.ca, about eastnet, aboot eastnet, aboot eastnet.ca, do canadians say aboot, not very often no, but what the hell"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=439Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:49:09Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet via HICOM to anybody who could think of a good reason; opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and after moving to Canada Eastnet.ca has become a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
<br />
References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=438Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:47:24Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved on to manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet.ca is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
<br />
References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=437Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:45:48Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet.ca is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref name=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref name=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=436Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:43:56Z<p>Michael: /* Recruitment.com and beyond */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet.ca is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law <ref=MUP>[http://www.uknet.com/risktraining/ A Beginner's Guide to Commercial Risk on the Internet]</ref> at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago <ref=ArtofSecurity>[http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</ref> and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
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References:<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=435Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:35:27Z<p>Michael: /* The Early Days */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to design and build a substantial networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM <ref name=HICOM>[http://hicom.org In memory of HICOM.]</ref>, a joint project between DEC, BT, the BCS, the BPS and Loughborough University. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM opening up the global Internet to the public for the first time in the UK. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet.ca is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
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References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=434Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:31:55Z<p>Michael: /* Security */</p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become one of the first systems people involved with creating [http://home.bt.com/ British Telecom's] Internet company: BTnet, then later moved on to become BT's head of Commercial Security dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, working for a number of major companies including DEC, Credit Suisse, Hughes, British Rail, Deloitte, Cellnet, Leukaemia Research and Swiss Bank. He was also privately consulting in large scale risk-assessments, computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of early network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security.<br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
<br />
References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=433Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:19:14Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole. <ref name=MUD-IRC>[http://ircnet.org/History/jarkko-mjl.html MUD and IRC HIstory in Parallel.]</ref><br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
<br />
References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=432Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:15:57Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD <ref name=MUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD1 MUD1 at Wikipedia]</ref> at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games such as MIST <ref name=MIST>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIST_%28MUD%29 Essex MIST at Wikipedia.]</ref> in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole.<br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
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[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
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<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=431Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T03:11:50Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD Wikipedia's AberMUD page.]</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole.<br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project <ref name=Tardis>[http://lorry.org/Docs/tardis-paper-1991.pdf Electronic Messaging Systems and Devolved System Administration - Presented at DECUS 1991. <i>Probably the first paper on remote systems management of public Unix servers.</i>]</ref> and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<HR><br />
<br />
References:<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=430Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T02:59:03Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 <ref name=AberMUD{{cite web|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD|title=AberMUD on Wikipedia}}</ref> and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole.<br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project (reference) and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=429Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T02:53:51Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history.<br />
<br />
= The Early Days =<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 ( reference wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD ) and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole.<br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project (reference) and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
= Security =<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
= Recruitment.com and beyond =<br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=428Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T02:52:50Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Michael Lawrie is now the Technical Manager of Eastnet.ca and Trolltamers - Here's a brief history. =<br />
<br />
== The Early Days ==<br />
<br />
Michael is considered to be one of the earliest pioneers of European Internet and global Social Internetworking. He started using and moderating online-systems in 1982 and wrote his first online Multi User Game in 1984, having to write a networking infrastructure to support it. He moved onto manage the first ever MUD at Essex University from 1987 to 1991, creating other major multi-user games in that time; and is credited with creating the extended endgame and adding in more social aspects to gameplay. He was the first person to release MUDs that people could host and run themselves in 1989 ( reference wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AberMUD ) and was key in bringing the Internet Relay Chat out of Finland to the Internet as a whole.<br />
<br />
Throughout the eighties he was involved with public access network systems in the UK, including the Edinburgh University Tardis project (reference) and HICOM. In 1991 he started offering free public access Internet to anybody who could think of a good reason via HICOM. His current Internet consultancy has been active since 1992 and Eastnet is a Canadian offshoot of that.<br />
<br />
== Security ==<br />
<br />
Michael went on to become head of Commercial Security at British Telecom dealing with a range of customers and sectors including Government, Police, Education, the NHS, Banking, Insurance, Telecoms, Retail & Manufacture and also some of the smaller to medium enterprise customers. He was one of the first to build and manage BT’s backbone, commercial and home Internet and their mobile Internet services. Before working for BT, Michael had already spent over ten years in computer, financial and network security, in large scale risk-assessment and also in computer-misuse investigations and forensics; working on some large scale worldwide hacking cases and pioneering a number of network forensics techniques. As an early executive member of the Professional Bodyguard Association, he is also a specialist in threat-assessment, counter-surveillance and some of the more esoteric aspects of real-world security. <br />
<br />
== Recruitment.com and beyond == <br />
<br />
Michael left BT to create Recruitment.com, at the time one of the first online recruitment companies. As CTO of the company he was integral to building the company to company worth in excess of fifty million dollars with a large high street presence before he left and retired. After that he spent some time training in and writing about Risk-Analysis, Commercial Security, Policy and IT Law at Middlesex University in London; conducting risk surveys, and reviewing security policies and systems designs. He also occasionally wrote about and taught things that aren’t security related at all. He is also slowly rewriting a book that he wrote under NDA a few years ago and is working on another book about castles - Both are expected to be finished in about 2099.<br />
<br />
Michael has also been involved in some high profile battles with large companies over trademark law, including a two year case against British Airports Authority over an internet site for sheep.<br />
<br />
= More Information =<br />
<br />
Here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
<br />
<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, consultancy, security consultants, website consultants, business development, DNS, domain names, michael, michael lawrie, lorry, lawrie, art of security"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael&diff=427Michael2016-03-30T02:24:04Z<p>Michael: Michael moved page Michael to Michael Lawrie: Looks better with a full name.</p>
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<div>#REDIRECT [[Michael Lawrie]]</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=426Michael Lawrie2016-03-30T02:24:04Z<p>Michael: Michael moved page Michael to Michael Lawrie: Looks better with a full name.</p>
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<div>You have probably reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around this site? After that, here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
[[Category:Main-menu]]<br />
[[Category:Users]]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=425Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-26T02:44:32Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>= A new way of doing the Internet... =<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering technical manager. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
= Companies we have worked with: =<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
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<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, online, about, aboot, about eastnet.ca, about eastnet, aboot eastnet, aboot eastnet.ca, do canadians say aboot, not very often no, but what the hell"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=424Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-26T02:43:19Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>=A new way of doing the Internet...=<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering technical manager. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
=Companies we have worked with=<br />
<br />
[[file:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg]]<br />
<br />
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[[Category:Eastnet]]<br />
[[Category:Wiki]]<br />
[[Category:Protected-Pages]]<br />
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<seo metakeywords="eastnet, atlantic canada, maritimes, nunavut, isp, it solutions, internet hosting, web hosting, SEO, analytics, online services, security, consultancy, e-commerce, cheap, free, online, about, aboot, about eastnet.ca, about eastnet, aboot eastnet, aboot eastnet.ca, do canadians say aboot, not very often no, but what the hell"<br />
metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_choose_us%3F&diff=423Why choose us?2016-03-26T02:42:10Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>= Background =<br />
<br />
We think we are pretty good at what we do and we have been doing it for a long time - And so we are going to provide a quick guide to seeing through the fakery and glitter you will see on many Internet sites. We are happy for you to do the same to us.<br />
<br />
The Internet is a strange place in which a kid in their parent's basement can set up an Internet company with a website that looks every bit as good as any professional company's one. A few hours with photoshop, a layout editor and some downloaded stock-images of people in suits using laptops in cafes or standing in an office lobby chatting and there's an Internet page ready and built. If they are too lazy or unskilled for even that, they can go to sites like fiverr.com and pay somebody in India or Eastern Europe to do it. On that page at the moment you can buy a full professional looking site for $33.<br />
<br />
Website hosting is another issue. Somebody with a spare PC running a downloaded Linux distribution can set up their own servers and have them online and working in less than an hour. It's simple to do.<br />
<br />
Google is not always much help. Anybody selling SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) packages probably knows at least some of the tricks required to make their companies show up in prominent positions on Google and can afford to pay somebody on fiverr a few dollars to create some convincing sounding spammy articles to make them sound good.<br />
<br />
So what can you do? Research, research, research!<br />
<br />
= Look a little further into that snazzy website! =<br />
<br />
How much actual information is there on the page? Are there links to sites that they have created or companies they have worked with for example? Some companies may wish to hide their clients for security reasons, this is reasonable but it's good if they give an idea or explain this. Does their "About us" page make any sense, and does anything sound too good to be true? Is there pricing on the page (there isn't on ours) to give you an indication of what they are charging people. Good hosting is probably going to cost a few hundred dollars a year so does it look like they are covering this with their existing customers or are they going to rake in those costs from you? Is there a section on the site that highlights the people and their skills? If not, why not?<br />
<br />
= The company is only as good as its people. =<br />
<br />
As we said above, the people are important. Sometimes it is perfectly legitimate to farm out some work to fiverr but at the same time, the whole thing needs to be project managed and followed up. Do the people who are doing this have experience in this? You are looking for degrees and good professional qualifications along with a lot of experience in big blue-chip companies. It sounds a little mean but unfortunately the only way to get wide-ranging experience is to work for different clients and big companies. Long periods of employment at a high technical level with major corporations is a very good sign. <br />
<br />
You can check people with some cynical use of Google. Don't believe everything you read on there, look on sites like LinkedIn and read their brag-sheets with a degree of disbelief. People lie and exaggerate but it's usually easy to spot those. Look for articles or books that they have written and if you are not very technically minded, ask a couple of people who are to read them and tell you what they think.<br />
<br />
What about the other staff? If a company says it has ten people working for them then is the company making enough money to pay for them? If they are also running a dry-cleaning business out of their server-shop then is your website support going to go silent as soon as a local hotel dumps off its cleaning? It's fine to ask this stuff, any good company will welcome it.<br />
<br />
= An Internet company needs good servers. =<br />
<br />
Ask for details of the servers. A server isn't a chicken, it isn't better if it's local and looked after by happy hippies in the countryside. Internet servers are born to live in Datacentres physically based in huge metropolitan cities with direct gigabit pipes to Internet backbones. A server is of little use to anybody if it's sharing a local-exchange copper wire or a piece of domestic cable with a bunch of people watching Netflix. You can ask where a server is physically located and ask what their upload rates are (not their download rates, you aren't watching TV from their servers you are accessing them from the Internet so the only number you care about is their upload ones). Check their location's power and services reliability; it's all very well them having good power supplies but it's useless if the wires blow down every month or the local service-provider only has 12 hours worth of battery backup in their exchanges. <br />
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To test the speeds, the best bet may well be to ask them for a command-line on their servers, or take a laptop there and visit speedtest.net - From a Linux command line you can use speedtest-cli (send them http://ubuntuserverguide.com/2014/01/how-to-test-internet-connection-speed-using-speedtest-cli-on-ubuntu-server.html and ask them to install it).<br />
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Look for uptime, and evidence that faults are logged and dealt with. Personally I like public status pages not ones that need logging in to see. If they have something to hide, that's one place they will hide it.<br />
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It is perfectly legitimate for an Internet company to have no servers of their own at all. People selling services like Domain Names or doing SEO may well farm their actual hosting out to other companies. Ones like ours in fact. It's still reasonable to ask for details of the third-party servers.<br />
<br />
= Check your security experts even more =<br />
<br />
Security experts are a breed-apart and need extra checking. I suppose I'd better write a blog article about that someday :)<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=422Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-26T02:40:07Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>*A new way of doing the Internet...<br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering technical manager. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
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*Companies we have worked with.<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Aboot_Eastnet.ca&diff=421Aboot Eastnet.ca2016-03-26T02:39:02Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>*<b>'''A new way of doing the Internet...'''</b><br />
<br />
Eastnet.ca is an independent Internet Services Provider run on the basis of getting you or your business up and running as simply and cheaply as possible. We work on the ethos that the Internet is actually pretty simple and a lot of the things that people charge small fortunes for, you could easily do yourself with a few pointers. <br />
<br />
It works out better for us this way, we spend a lot less time fixing things for clients and we have a lot less money to count. That's a win, isn't it?<br />
<br />
We provide design, provision, build and consultancy for most things IT related; ranging from initial specification and setup, ongoing maintenance and online services such as email, websites, blogs and wikis. We also have good professional partnerships with graphics design, search-engine optimization (SEO) and analytics companies and we have our own very well-respected security consultancy. Oh yes, we do non Internet systems and training too.<br />
<br />
We run some very powerful and well maintained servers of our own with huge amounts of bandwidth but we also recognize that companies like Google do some things better than we can ever justify in terms of cost. We won't, for example, try and sell you an email application for a small office when Google-Apps may be able to do it so much better and for less money but we can do small-scale email services if that's all you want. What we will do is to make sure everything fits together neatly and keeps on running well. Though we say so ourselves, we have some of the best staff in the business available. Actually, we don't just say so ourselves; plenty of other people say nice things about our consultants and you can look them up on the Interweb if you want.<br />
<br />
Nobody at Eastnet.ca draws a salary and the only full time member of staff is our long suffering technical manager. We bring in the best people for the job as they are needed which keeps our overheads right down and means we don't have to bother with annoying things like offices and payroll. It also means we can use much better people than we could otherwise justify paying and mostly, they can be based anywhere in the world. We like it that way and apparently, so do the people we work with.<br />
<br />
We mostly cover the Atlantic and Northern Canada area but we aren't proud; this is the Internet after all. We will and do take customers from pretty much anywhere; but if you are in Siberia don't expect us to pop over for a cup of tea and face to face meetings too often; unless you are buying the tickets of course.<br />
<br />
This page is sparse because we don't really market on the Web. If you have come to us, you have come to us through word-of-mouth. This just provides some extra information and a parking-space. Some documentation requires you to login to view it.<br />
<br />
*<b>Companies we have worked with.</b><br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=File:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg&diff=420File:Eastnet-companies-worked-with.jpg2016-03-26T02:38:11Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Category:Users&diff=419Category:Users2016-03-25T07:26:26Z<p>Michael: Created page with "Users with their own landing pages..."</p>
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<div>Users with their own landing pages...</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=418Michael Lawrie2016-03-25T07:25:09Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>You have probably reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around this site? After that, here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
<br />
* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=417Michael Lawrie2016-03-25T07:23:02Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>You have probably reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around this site? After that, here are some external links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]<br />
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* [http://truckstop.lorry.org/ Lorry's Truckstop]<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Domain_Names&diff=416Domain Names2016-03-25T07:20:08Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>We have been running Domain Name Servers since 1987 and our oldest domain name ( http://hicom.org ) was registered in May, 1992. This makes us one of the oldest DNS providers and domain registration advisories in the world. Some of the services we offer are:<br />
<br />
* DNS Servers (Primary and Secondary)<br />
<br />
* Domain Name advisory<br />
** Choosing a domain name<br />
** Legal issues<br />
<br />
* What to do next: How to use your domain<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=415Michael Lawrie2016-03-25T07:19:15Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>You have reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around?<br />
<br />
Some links:<br />
<br />
* [https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie Michael on LinkedIn.]<br />
* [http://artofsecurity.com The Art of Security.]</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=414Michael Lawrie2016-03-25T07:17:49Z<p>Michael: </p>
<hr />
<div>You have reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around?<br />
<br />
Some links:<br />
<br />
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie|Michael on LinkedIn.<br />
* http://artofsecurity.com|The Art of Security.</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Michael_Lawrie&diff=413Michael Lawrie2016-03-25T07:16:19Z<p>Michael: Created page with "You have reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello! Since you are here, why not have a look around? Some links: * https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie..."</p>
<hr />
<div>You have reached this page via Michael Lawrie's business card - So hello!<br />
<br />
Since you are here, why not have a look around?<br />
<br />
Some links:<br />
<br />
* https://www.linkedin.com/in/mlawrie | Michael on LinkedIn.<br />
* http://artofsecurity.com | The Art of Security</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=News&diff=412News2016-03-24T09:52:30Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>([[User:Michael|Michael]] ([[User talk:Michael|talk]]))<br />
This may well be the most boring news page ever. Sorry about that! We just don't really have any.<br />
<br />
[[User:Michael|Michael]] 00:47, 8 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
Added SEO support on the Mediawiki installations.<br />
<br />
[[User:Michael|Michael]] 01:51, 27 June 2010 (ADT)<br />
<b>Phatic.org</b> - Upgraded from Wordpress MU 2.9.2 to Wordpress 3.0 (an incorporation of Wordpress and Wordpress MU)<br />
A number of plugins and themes were updated and the old contact form seems to be broken, but we have replaced<br />
every instance we saw. Everything seems to work - Fingers crossed.<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Service_Status&diff=411Service Status2016-03-24T09:34:26Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>== Live Status ==<br />
<br />
* Systems: Up<br />
* Phatic.org: Up<br />
* Eastnet Wiki: Up<br />
* Shonky Wiki: Up<br />
* Email: Up<br />
* Domain Name Service: Up<br />
* Backup Servers: Up<br />
* Cloud: Up<br />
* Jabber: Up<br />
<br />
Last change: ([[User:Michael|Michael]] 07:26, 24 March 2016 (UTC)) Nothing major to report.<br />
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== Detailed News ==<br />
<br />
* Eastnet Wiki updated to 1.26 ([[User:Michael|Michael]] 07:26, 24 March 2016 (UTC)) (Timezone also seems to be broken on it)<br />
<br />
* Mail systems completely changed underneath - Users shouldn't notice any changes except that stuff should be more reliable. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 03:30, 28 December 2015 (AST)<br />
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* Catastrophic disk failure on user servers, recovered from mirrors and moved to new disks but about 16 hours downtime. All services recovered and some upgrades done since it was down anyway [[User:Michael|Michael]] 16 July 2015 (AST)<br />
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* 2014 was completely uneventful. Amazing! [[User:Michael|Michael]] 00:01, 1 January 2015 (AST)<br />
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* Jabber system rebuild and demon changed. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 22:30, 17 April 2013 (AST)<br />
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* Wordpress upgraded to 3.5 - There may be some interface changes. Wordpress upgrades are now automatic [[User:Michael|Michael]] 18:31, 20 December 2012 (AST)<br />
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* Sorry I missed informing anyone but we had a 24 hour downtime as Hetzner moved us to a new Data Centre - I think everything is back up and working now but you know the drill, mail us if there is a problem. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 15:50, 24 September 2010 (ADT)<br />
<br />
* Short downtime today whilst we upgrade the Mediawikis to 1.16.0 - Actually strike that I just did it and if this shows then it apparently worked. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 10:45, 29 July 2010 (ADT)<br />
<br />
* The Hetzner problem is finally mended. Their Network team will only say that it was a customer causing problems. Ummmm. Well anyway it's all working again now thankfully. The XMPP/Jabber server is back too [[User:Michael|Michael]] 14:00, 16 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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* What a difference a day makes: Actually, it makes no difference at all - It seems Hetzner doesn't work at weekends so I haven't heard a thing. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 12:33, 11 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
<br />
* The downtime went well and everything except Jabber is back up now. The network disconnects make keeping the Jabber server running impossible. The good news is that the network problems are nothing to do with us and we have now proved that so maybe Hetzner will get it fixed. There is a support link at http://redmine.eastnet.ca/issues/8 for detailed information. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 08:38, 10 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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* There will be a shortish downtime of all the servers tonight at 10pm Atlantic time (2am UK, 3am CET). We are shutting down the servers to see if the network problems persist and if so we will know that the problem is with Hetzner. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 14:02, 9 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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* The hourly glitch still seems to be going on - Every hour, on the hour there is a few second (to few minute) service interruption and we are speaking to Hetzner about this. Hopefully we'll have an answer soon. [[User:Michael|Michael]] 07:46, 2 July 2010 (UTC)<br />
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== Change Log ==<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Why_choose_us%3F&diff=410Why choose us?2016-03-24T09:28:03Z<p>Michael: Created page with "= Background = We think we are pretty good at what we do and we have been doing it for a long time - And so we are going to provide a quick guide to seeing through the fakery..."</p>
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<div>= Background =<br />
<br />
We think we are pretty good at what we do and we have been doing it for a long time - And so we are going to provide a quick guide to seeing through the fakery and glitter you will see on many Internet sites. We are happy for you to do the same to us.<br />
<br />
The Internet is a strange place in which a kid in their parent's basement can set up an Internet company with a website that looks every bit as good as any professional company's one. A few hours with photoshop, a layout editor and some downloaded stock-images of people in suits using laptops in cafes or standing in an office lobby chatting and there's an Internet page ready and built. If they are too lazy or unskilled for even that, they can go to sites like fiverr.com and pay somebody in India or Eastern Europe to do it. On that page at the moment you can buy a full professional looking site for $33.<br />
<br />
Website hosting is another issue. Somebody with a spare PC running a downloaded Linux distribution can set up their own servers and have them online and working in less than an hour. It's simple to do.<br />
<br />
Google is not always much help. Anybody selling SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) packages probably knows at least some of the tricks required to make their companies show up in prominent positions on Google and can afford to pay somebody on fiverr a few dollars to create some convincing sounding spammy articles to make them sound good.<br />
<br />
So what can you do? Research, research, research!<br />
<br />
= Look a little further into that snazzy website! =<br />
<br />
How much actual information is there on the page? Are there links to sites that they have created for example? Some companies may wish to hide their clients for security reasons, this is reasonable but it's good if they give an idea or explain this. Does their "About us" page make any sense, and does anything sound too good to be true? Is there pricing on the page (there isn't on ours) to give you an indication of what they are charging people. Good hosting is probably going to cost a few hundred dollars a year so does it look like they are covering this with their existing customers or are they going to rake in those costs from you? Is there a section on the site that highlights the people and their skills? If not, why not?<br />
<br />
= The company is only as good as its people. =<br />
<br />
As we said above, the people are important. Sometimes it is perfectly legitimate to farm out some work to fiverr but at the same time, the whole thing needs to be project managed and followed up. Do the people who are doing this have experience in this? You are looking for degrees and good professional qualifications along with a lot of experience in big blue-chip companies. It sounds a little mean but unfortunately the only way to get wide-ranging experience is to work for different clients and big companies. Long periods of employment at a high technical level with major corporations is a very good sign. <br />
<br />
You can check people with some cynical use of Google. Don't believe everything you read on there, look on sites like LinkedIn and read their brag-sheets with a degree of disbelief. People lie and exaggerate but it's usually easy to spot those. Look for articles or books that they have written and if you are not very technically minded, ask a couple of people who are to read them and tell you what they think.<br />
<br />
What about the other staff? If a company says it has ten people working for them then is the company making enough money to pay for them? If they are also running a dry-cleaning business out of their server-shop then is your website support going to go silent as soon as a local hotel dumps off its cleaning? It's fine to ask this stuff, any good company will welcome it.<br />
<br />
= An Internet company needs good servers. =<br />
<br />
Ask for details of the servers. A server isn't a chicken, it isn't better if it's local and looked after by happy hippies in the countryside. Internet servers are born to live in Datacentres physically based in huge metropolitan cities with direct gigabit pipes to Internet backbones. A server is of little use to anybody if it's sharing a local-exchange copper wire or a piece of domestic cable with a bunch of people watching Netflix. You can ask where a server is physically located and ask what their upload rates are (not their download rates, you aren't watching TV from their servers you are accessing them from the Internet so the only number you care about is their upload ones). Check their location's power and services reliability; it's all very well them having good power supplies but it's useless if the wires blow down every month or the local service-provider only has 12 hours worth of battery backup in their exchanges. <br />
<br />
To test the speeds, the best bet may well be to ask them for a command-line on their servers, or take a laptop there and visit speedtest.net - From a Linux command line you can use speedtest-cli (send them http://ubuntuserverguide.com/2014/01/how-to-test-internet-connection-speed-using-speedtest-cli-on-ubuntu-server.html and ask them to install it).<br />
<br />
Look for uptime, and evidence that faults are logged and dealt with. Personally I like public status pages not ones that need logging in to see. If they have something to hide, that's one place they will hide it.<br />
<br />
It is perfectly legitimate for an Internet company to have no servers of their own at all. People selling services like Domain Names or doing SEO may well farm their actual hosting out to other companies. Ones like ours in fact. It's still reasonable to ask for details of the third-party servers.<br />
<br />
= Check your security experts even more =<br />
<br />
Security experts are a breed-apart and need extra checking. I suppose I'd better write a blog article about that someday :)<br />
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metadescription="Eastnet.ca - Cheap and effective Internet and IT Solutions for Atlantic Canada and beyond." /></div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sidebar&diff=407MediaWiki:Sidebar2016-03-24T07:19:29Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>* Services<br />
** Aboot Eastnet.ca|About Eastnet.ca<br />
** Why choose us?|Why choose us?<br />
** Hosting|Hosting<br />
** Domain Names|DNS & Domain Names<br />
** http://trolltamers.com/ |Moderation & Social Media<br />
** Graphic Design|Graphic Design<br />
** SEO and Analytics|SEO & Analytics<br />
** Other Services|Other Services<br />
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* Contact<br />
** Contact Us|Contact Us<br />
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* Support<br />
** Service Status|Service Status<br />
** news|News<br />
** Documentation|Documentation<br />
** Useful Links|Useful Links<br />
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* Navigation<br />
** mainpage|mainpage<br />
** recentchanges-url|recentchanges<br />
** randompage-url|randompage</div>Michaelhttps://eastnet.ca/mediawiki/index.php?title=Other_Services&diff=405Other Services2016-03-24T07:17:11Z<p>Michael: </p>
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<div>We can pretty much turn our hands to anything if it's interesting... Certainly feel free talk to us about things we have direct expertise in such as:<br />
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* Commercial Security<br />
* User Safety<br />
* Misuse Investigations<br />
* Forensics and Fraud<br />
* Training<br />
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<div><big>'''MediaWiki installation pages and useful links.'''</big><br />
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This is a fairly old page that really needs merging with the full installation guide on Shonky - That one isn't public yet because it needs some heavy tidying up. I have left this one here for now because there a lot of useful links. The internal installation page is on http://shonky.com/wiki/MediaWiki<br />
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Consult the [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.<br />
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== Getting Started ==<br />
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ]<br />
* [http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-announce MediaWiki release mailing list]<br />
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* [http://www.steverumberg.com/wiki/index.php?title=WikiHelp_-_Method_Two Multiple Media Wikis on a single host]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access Preventing Access]<br />
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== Useful Documentation Links ==<br />
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* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting Formatting in general]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Links Formatting links]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interface/Sidebar Editing the Sidebar]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Footer Editing the Footer]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Interface_messages Interface Messages]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL Short URLs]<br />
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:HTML_in_wikitext HTML in Wiki Pages]<br />
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Text_color Text Colour]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AColor Wikipedia documentation on colours]<br />
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Special_page Special Pages]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Boilerplate Boilerplate Extension for default page templates]<br />
* [http://blog.fedecarg.com/2008/03/08/20-mediawiki-extensions-you-should-be-using/ 20 Mediawiki Extensions (1.2)]<br />
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Customize_page_layout Customize page layout]<br />
* [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Gallery_of_user_styles User Style Gallery]<br />
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== Useful Page Links ==<br />
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* [[MediaWiki:Sidebar]]<br />
* [[MediaWiki:Sitenotice]]<br />
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== Notes ==<br />
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=== Logbook ===<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 14:09, 12 May 2010 (ADT) Done rewrite rules as of:<br />
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_how-to_guide_.28setup_used_on_Wikipedia.29 (Though not done the robots.txt but I can't be bothered)<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 15:45, 13 May 2010 (ADT) Created new Wiki for shonky.com and documented that below.<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 10:53, 14 May 2010 (ADT) Moving the root Wiki into http://eastnet.ca/site and only that now. So remove the Apache2/conf.d entry and put that directly into eastnet's config and trim down the rewrite rules in that and in the LocalSettings.<br />
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<pre><br />
LocalSettings.php<br />
$wgArticlePath = "/site/$1"; # Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath<br />
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Eastnet apache conf change:<br />
Alias /site /var/lib/mediawiki/index.php<br />
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Eastnet's www directory - .htaccess<br />
Redirect 301 /index.html /site<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 18:09, 15 May 2010 (ADT) Updated the bit about needing a local copy of the maintenance scripts for each host.<br />
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=== Howtos ===<br />
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==== Separate wiki on a different hosted subdomain ====<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 15:34, 13 May 2010 (ADT)<br />
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The top level wiki (this one) has the DB details thus:<br />
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<pre><br />
$wgDBtype = "mysql";<br />
$wgDBserver = "localhost";<br />
$wgDBname = "wikidb";<br />
$wgDBuser = "USER";<br />
$wgDBpassword = "PASS";<br />
# MySQL specific settings<br />
$wgDBprefix = "mediawiki_";<br />
</pre><br />
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The path to the existing wiki is effectively /var/lib/mediawiki and is defined in /etc/apache2/conf.d/mediawiki.conf with a couple of Aliases:<br />
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<pre><br />
Alias /mediawiki /var/lib/mediawiki<br />
Alias /wiki /var/lib/mediawiki/index.php<br />
</pre><br />
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Looking in this, most of the stuff is simply links from /usr/share/mediawiki/ so it should be easy to create a whole new root.<br />
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So to create a new Wiki on shonky.com which is at /data/www/shonky.com the best way should be to create a wiki directory there, then to make the appropriate links and copies - So:<br />
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<pre><br />
root@eris:/etc/mediawiki# cd /var/www/shonky.com/<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com# mkdir mediawiki<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com# cd mediawiki/<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# mkdir images<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# chown www-data.www-data images<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# mkdir config<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# chown www-data.www-data config<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# mkdir upload<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# chown www-data.www-data upload<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# ln -fs /usr/share/mediawiki/* .<br />
root@eris:/data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# rm maintenance<br />
root@eris:/data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# cp -r /usr/share/mediawiki/maintenance .<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# rm LocalSettings.php<br />
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root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# cd config/<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/config# cp /usr/share/mediawiki/config/index.php .<br />
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</pre><br />
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(In order for the maintenance scripts to work properly they need to be proper copies and not links, that's why we copy them instead of linking. This is worth remembering when you upgrade)<br />
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Then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/shonky.com and pop in:<br />
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<pre><br />
## Mediawiki<br />
Alias /mediawiki /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki<br />
## Alias /wiki /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/index.php<br />
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<Directory /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/><br />
Options +FollowSymLinks<br />
AllowOverride All<br />
order allow,deny<br />
allow from all<br />
</Directory><br />
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# some directories must be protected<br />
<Directory /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/config><br />
Options -FollowSymLinks<br />
AllowOverride None<br />
</Directory><br />
<Directory /data/www/shonky.com//mediawiki/upload><br />
Options -FollowSymLinks<br />
AllowOverride None<br />
</Directory><br />
</pre><br />
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Run: apache2ctl restart<br />
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Then go to http://shonky.com/mediawiki and click on configure, or just straight to http://shonky.com/mediawiki/config/index.php<br />
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Wiki name: Shonky<br />
Admin username and Password should be obvious as should most other things until Database...<br />
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Database type: MySQL<br />
Database host: localhost<br />
Database name: wickidb<br />
DB username: USER<br />
DB password: PASS<br />
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Database table prefix: shonky_<br />
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Click install and it should be good.<br />
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It will tell you: Installation successful! Move /var/lib/mediawiki/config/LocalSettings.php to /etc/mediawiki - Don't just:<br />
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root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/config# mv LocalSettings.php ..<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/config# cd ..<br />
root@eris:/var/www/shonky.com/mediawiki# rm -rf config/<br />
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Now check it works - Which it will and then edit /etc/apache2/sites-available/shonky.com and remove the comment from the 2nd Alias and restart Apache.<br />
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To keep everything neat: ln -fs /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.shonky.php<br />
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Now edit /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.shonky.php and make a few changes around the Sitename bit:<br />
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<pre><br />
#####################################################################################<br />
## MJL Bits<br />
<br />
$wgSitename = "Shonky";<br />
$wgLogo = "http://shonky.com/castle-sm.jpg";<br />
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# Lots of this is from: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access<br />
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;<br />
# Restrict anonymous editing and hide user tools for anonymous (IP) visitors.<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;<br />
<br />
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;<br />
<br />
# Enable File Uploads - This is also mentioned later but commented out.<br />
# The images directory also needs to be set writeable. ( chmod 770 /data/www/shonky.com/mediawiki/images )<br />
# And check ownership is www-data.www-data<br />
$wgEnableUploads = true;<br />
<br />
# Now from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_how-to_guide_.28setup_used_on_Wikipedia.29<br />
# We'll enable short forms for the rewrites - We will go with http://shonky.com/wiki/XXX<br />
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; # Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath<br />
$wgUsePathInfo = true; # Enable use of pretty URLs<br />
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#####################################################################################<br />
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And comment out wgEnableUploads = false; later in the file.<br />
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It should all be ok now...<br />
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==== Quick and dirty walkthrough of the above - Updated ====<br />
<br />
[[User:Michael|Michael]] 04:15, 29 January 2011 (AST)<br />
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<pre><br />
<br />
Walkthrough for installing a brand new and separate Wiki on a site with an existing db (not that that matters)<br />
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cd /data/www/freecycle.me<br />
tar vzxf /opt/mediawiki-1.16.1.tar.gz<br />
mv mediawiki-1.16.1 mediawiki<br />
cd /data/www/freecycle.me/mediawiki<br />
chmod a+w config<br />
<br />
# Now configure the thing on the net by going to http://freecycle.me/mediawiki<br />
<br />
mv config/LocalSettings.php /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.freecycle.php<br />
ls -la /etc/mediawiki/<br />
chown root.root /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.freecycle.php<br />
chmod 755 /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.freecycle.php<br />
ln -fs /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.freecycle.php LocalSettings.php<br />
rm -rf config/<br />
cd extensions/<br />
cp -r /opt/mediawiki/extensions/* .<br />
cd /data/www/freecycle.me<br />
cp ../eastnet.ca/.htaccess .<br />
<br />
# Edit .htaccess to make it /mediawiki not /site<br />
<br />
: /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.freecycle.php<br />
<br />
Had to add:<br />
<br />
# We define this to allow the configuration file to be explicitly<br />
# located in /etc/mediawiki.<br />
# Change this if you are setting up multisite wikis on your server.<br />
define('MW_INSTALL_PATH','/data/www/freecycle.me/mediawiki');<br />
<br />
And:<br />
<br />
####################################################<br />
# MJL Bits<br />
<br />
$wgSitename = "Freecycle";<br />
$wgLogo = "http://uknet.com/freecycle/Logos/freecyclefree-mini.jpg";<br />
<br />
# Lots of this is from: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Preventing_access<br />
# Prevent new user registrations except by sysops<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['createaccount'] = false;<br />
# Restrict anonymous editing and hide user tools for anonymous (IP) visitors.<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['edit'] = false;<br />
$wgShowIPinHeader = false;<br />
<br />
# Enable File Uploads - This is also mentioned later but commented out.<br />
# The images directory also needs to be set writeable. ( chmod 770 /var/lib/mediawiki/images )<br />
# And check ownership is www-data.www-data<br />
$wgEnableUploads = true;<br />
<br />
# Now from http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL#Recommended_how-to_guide_.28setup_used_on_Wikipedia.29<br />
# We'll enable short forms for the rewrites - We will go with http://freecycle.me/wiki/XXX - Remember this<br />
# needs to be set up in the Apache configuration to work.<br />
$wgArticlePath = "/wiki/$1"; # Virtual path. This directory MUST be different from the one used in $wgScriptPath<br />
$wgUsePathInfo = true; # Enable use of pretty URLs<br />
<br />
# Let's allow external images.<br />
$wgAllowExternalImages = true;<br />
<br />
<br />
####################################################<br />
<br />
## The URL base path to the directory containing the wiki;<br />
## defaults for all runtime URL paths are based off of this.<br />
## For more information on customizing the URLs please see:<br />
## http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Short_URL<br />
$wgScriptPath = "/mediawiki";<br />
$wgScriptExtension = ".php";<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
----------<br />
Look and feel.<br />
<br />
http://www.freecycle.me/wiki/MediaWiki:Common.css<br />
<br />
/* CSS placed here will be applied to all skins */<br />
/* <br />
<br />
Decided not to go with:<br />
<br />
font-family: Tahoma;<br />
<br />
*/<br />
<br />
* {;<br />
font-family: arial;<br />
font-size: 14px;<br />
}<br />
<br />
<br />
http://freecycle.me/wiki/MediaWiki:Sidebar is the side bar.<br />
<br />
<br />
Finally add all the extensions in from the other LocalSettings files, but beware that checkUser needs some pre-configuration or it breaks everything.<br />
check http://shonky.com/wiki/MediaWiki#CheckUser for more info there.<br />
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</pre><br />
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==== Restrict Reading Access ====<br />
<br />
[[User:Michael|Michael]] 15:44, 13 May 2010 (ADT)<br />
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For the shonky.com Wiki we only want the front page readable - Everything else is restricted to logged in users.<br />
<br />
Add the following to /etc/mediawiki/LocalSettings.shonky.php :<br />
<br />
<pre><br />
# Disable reading by anonymous users<br />
$wgGroupPermissions['*']['read'] = false;<br />
# But allow them to read these pages:<br />
$wgWhitelistRead = array ( "Main Page", "Special:Userlogin", "Help:Contents");<br />
</pre><br />
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==== Pretty Colours ====<br />
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[[User:Michael|Michael]] 22:45, 24 May 2010 (ADT)<br />
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From: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Mattes/Complete_index<br />
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<pre><br />
[[Image:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Clarinet Concerto - 1. Allegro.ogg|50px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Holy-infs.jpg|right|140px|Holy infants embracing by Leonardo da Vinci, circa 1486]]<br />
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<div style="font-size:120%; font-family:'Palatino Linotype', serif; color:#9400D3; background-color:pink;"><br />
[[File:Complete index - animated, magical wishes - Pookatoo.gif|300px|center]]<br />
<center>of pages in the user namespace [[User:Mattes]]</center><br />
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<span style="text-shadow:grey 0.15em 0.15em 0.2em; class=texhtml">This page lists all created categories and pages within my Wikimedia Commons user namespace.<br />
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Sorted by topic (first) and alphabetic order (second), if red the page is yet empty.</span><br />
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{{keypress|under construction}}<br />
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==== Upgrading ====<br />
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Upgrading is a good start.<br />
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